the secret adversary agatha christie movie

The pacing also feels rather too at ease with having Sunday nights to fill, so it never seems in a rush to do much and again this takes away some element of urgency from the mystery in terms of narrative there is really no reason this story could not have worked better as a two-hour special as opposed to three one-hour long episodes. This approach works reasonably well, but it does give the story a rather self-satisfied feeling – not quite smugness, but certainly something approaching that.

Indeed in terms of mystery this serial seems happy not to worry too much about the details and instead keeps it broadly moving on the surface. The same could be said of the mystery there is just about enough to it to keep the interest, but not so much that you will be picking away at the details trying to work out the solution. Mostly the drama plays out in a broadly quite fun way, with perhaps just enough menace and risk built is so that we care, but never so much that it risks being too challenging on a Sunday night.

In terms of narrative it does have quite a lot of coincidence and convenience in the way the plot plays out, but I was fine to go along with this. The first season is two mysteries, three episodes each. I guess the logic is that the material is coming down to a level of light entertainment, rather than being written up to that bar, so perhaps it will be better, but regardless I did look forward to Partners in Crime. I may pretend I am above Sunday evening light entertainment television, and I do tend to avoid a lot of it, but Agatha Christie's name is usually enough to get my interest.

The secret adversary agatha christie movie